Improvement in links for ornamental chains



.T. I. FREEMAN.

LINKS FOR ORNAMENTAL CHAINS.

No. 189,619. Patented Apr'1117, 1877.

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EITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

JOSEPH 'J. FREEMAN, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO FREEMAN8t (10., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LINKS FOR ORNAMENTAL CHAINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,6), dated April 17,1877; application filed February 10, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH J. FREEMAN, of Attleborough, in the State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improved Link for Ornamental Chains,which is designed to be an improvement on the patent granted me March11, 1873, and numbered 136,594, of which the following is aspecification:

The nature of my invention consists in an improved chain-link, formed ofwire bent around a suitable form, and then having its ends turnedinwardly, forming two loops, by means of which any desired number ofsuch links may be readily grouped into a strong and durable ornamentalchain for jewelry, without the employment of solder.

Figure 1 represents a piece of the chain, showing the method of groupingthe links with each other. Fig. 2 is a side view of a single link. Fig.3 is a sectional view taken in the line 00 m.

The wire used to form the link Ais first bent around a circular form,and then the ends are turned inwardly or toward each other, so as toform the loops a a, Fig. 2, leaving a space between the two ends of thewire, and between the ends of the wire and the inner curved surface ofthe link, sufficient for the insertion of the wire of another linkwithin the loops.

In putting the chain together two links are caught at a timeone in eachloopand then the link is squeezed, so as to cause the ends of the wireto touch each other, as shown in Fig.1; and this operation is repeatedwith other links until the chain is completely formed. It is then drawnthrough a smooth hole in a plate, in order to reduce the links to auniform size.

The space 0 between the ends of the wire and the inner surface of thelink is made so that, when occupied by the links A A, the links A Acannot pass from one loop into the other, thus allowing the chain tobecome disorganized.

This improved link, when made of grooved wire, forms up into a chain inclose imitation to the celebrated Geneva chain, the construction ofwhich is attended with expensive soldering. Either square, flat, orround wire will also produce desirable efi'ects.

I claim as my invention The chain-link A, formed of wire, bent around,as shown, and having its ends turned inwardly, so as to form the twoloops at a, and leaving a space, 0, between the ends of the wire and theinner surface of the link, sufficient to receive but one thickness ofthe wire at a time, substantially as described.

JOSEPH J. FREEMAN. Witnesses:

SOGRATES SoHoLFIELi ALBA R. ABBOTT.

